OK. I accept that we all have different tastes. That's fine. I accept that we all find different things in racing that turn us on. No problem. And usually, I enjoy hearing other people's perspectives on the whole thing because there's always a chance that I'll pick up on something that I might have missed otherwise. But this book is a self-indulgent piece of junk that took away about 70 minutes of my life that I will never get back.

Here's the deal. Young superstar driver with the world at his heels is involved in an accident during a F3000 race that kills his teammate. Racked with guilt, Mr Hero scoots off to the Carolina and spends decades living in obscurity as a monk. But deep beneath Mr Racing Monk's robes is a racer still trying to get out. Hey, it's what God wants. Conveniently, Mr Racing Monk wins a stinkload of money, and despite being in his early 50s, decides that it's time for a comeback ­ but just for one race (Monaco, of course), and on his terms … which is why he ends up at the Morgan factory in England convincing the ultimate in old-skool carmakers to drop everything and embark on a one-race F1 programme, with a car designed by a certain John Barnard. (Whose job description seems to change constantly throughout the book).

Of course they come up against all sorts of opposition, ranging from the political to the practical, such as getting virtually no track time on the first day of the race weekend because Mr Racing Monk was busy mediating.

And from there, the book stunned me by actually managing to go downhill, 'climaxing' with a dramatic finale which I won't spoil for you. Suffice to say that divine intervention plays a massive part in it all because despite everything that is going on in the world, God obviously sees helping Mr Racing Monk achieve his F1 destiny as an overriding priority. Look, I in no way wish to deride anybody's faith, and if somebody out there finds some sort of inspiration in all of this then by all means go and get a copy. Knock yourself out. But from both a spiritual and racing perspective, I found the whole thing ludicrous.